flow

noun

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

a smooth current of rap lyrics;

one's manner or style of rapping

Collocates on the low⁸, spit⁷, murder⁶, dough⁵, wack⁴, on point⁴, hoe⁴, Optimo⁴, retarded⁴, nuff³, swagger³, good³, ill³, loco³, rapper³, re-up³, rhyme³, mad², mad², no homo², rep², proper², rap², steady², Calico², cavi², crazy², drop², thugged-out², feel², fin'², floss², go hard², long², yo², wackness², toast², thuggish², flavor², swag², get busy, green, H-town, hard, hate, heat, hella, hellafied, herb, Hova, hydro, I'mma, ice, icy, ish, joint, lifted, low-low, MAC-11, mayne, mental, nickel, nickel bag, off the chain, on fleek, pack, pack, papes, peace out, peep, played-out, po-po, pop, powder, puff, punk, punk, rag, rap, rap, real, retarded, rip, scrill, shorty, shot-caller, sick, 64, sleep on, slow your roll, snow, son, T-Dot O, telly, throw down, tight, trap, trill, turn it out, wack, Y.O., yo, b-boy, d-boy, muh'fucker, tryna, -ass, 310, baby mama, backpack, beat, bitch, black, bolo, booyah, bout, bow, bread, Brick City, bust, bust a move, bust a cap, cake up, Chi-town, chill, chronic, correct, crunk, delf, digits, dolo, dolo, down, drop, Eagle, ether, fatty, figures, 44, four pound, freestyle, froze, fuck with, G-funk, goat

Domains Music

Related concepts freestyle, hip-hop, MC, put it down, rap, rapper, rapping, rhyme, throw down, turn it out

Timeline

1988-06-07 MC Lyte "Don't Cry Big Girls" [Lyte As A Rock]
Can't stop the flow, it's just too persistant
1988-06-07 EPMD "Strictly Business" [Strictly Business]
With the slow tempo and the off-beat rhyme flow
1988-08-02 Salt-n-Pepa "Solo Power (Syncopated Soul)" [A Salt With A Deadly Pepa]
Just wait for the drumroll, then you can feel the flow

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flow

intransitive verb

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

to rap, rhyme with smooth, constant delivery

Collocates 24-7², beat², MC², wack², word is bond², yo², -ass, 7:30, body, bolo, chicken, chinchilla, chips, correct, deuce deuce, Dom P, double R, fiend, 5-0, flavor, front, H-town, hard, herb, heron, hollow-point, keep it real, Lex, no diggity, on the low, on the under, peep, rep, rep, represent, retarded, retarded, spit, tryna, X.O., yo

Domains Music

Synonyms rap, rhyme, spit

Timeline

1987-07-07 Eric B. & Rakim "My Melody" [Paid In Full]
Keep you goin when I'm flowin, smooth enough, you know it
1987-07-07 Eric B. & Rakim "Move The Crowd" [Paid In Full]
For those that know me, indeed, I like to flow
1987-10-25 Heavy D & The Boyz "Rock The Bass" [Living Large]
Flowin to the sound

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